Population groups on Independence Day 2026

On the eve of Israel’s 78th Independence Day, CBS reported 10.244 million residents: 7.790 million Jews and Others (76%), 2.157 million Arabs (21.1%), and 296,000 foreigners (2.9%).

CBS defines Arabs in that release as Muslims, Arab Christians, and Druze. CBS defines Others as non-Arab Christians, other religions, and those not classified by religion in the Population Register.

Muslims

CBS data released ahead of Eid al-Adha 2026, as reported by Israel.com, estimated Israel’s Muslim population at 1.849 million at the end of 2025, accounting for 18.6% of the country’s residents.

The same CBS figures showed growth of approximately 34,000 people over the previous year, with the annual growth rate slowing to 1.8% in 2025 from 2.2% the previous year.

Jerusalem remained home to the country’s largest Muslim population, with 395,200 Muslim residents. Muslims made up 37.2% of Jerusalem’s population and 21.4% of all Muslims living in Israel.

Children aged 14 and younger accounted for 30.9% of Muslims in Israel; 5.4% were aged 65 and older. In 2025, CBS reported that Muslim women gave birth to an average of 2.76 children. By comparison, the fertility rate stood at 3.08 among Jewish women, 1.69 among Druze women, 1.62 among Christian women, and 1.14 among women without a religious classification.

Druze

CBS figures released for the 2026 Nabi Shu’ayb festival, as reported by Israel.com, numbered the Druze population in Israel at approximately 154,369 people (provisional), compared with 14,500 in 1949.

At the end of 2024, CBS reported the localities with the highest number of Druze as Dalit al-Karmel (17,700) and Yarka (16,400). Less than a quarter (22.6%) of the Druze population were children aged 0–14. For comparison, CBS reported 27.3% children in the Jewish population, about a third (31.3%) in the Muslim population, and about a fifth (19.6%) in the Arab Christian population.

CBS reported the Druze population growth rate in 2024 at 1%, the same as the Jewish population. The total fertility rate per Druze woman in 2024 was 1.66 children on average, compared with 1.75 the previous year.

What this page does not estimate

This page does not invent a separate current count for Arab Christians, a Jewish-only total distinct from CBS’s “Jews and Others” grouping, or city populations other than the Jerusalem Muslim figures cited above. Those fields are omitted until a matching official table is attached.

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Israel’s Muslim Population Reaches 1.85 Million Ahead of Eid al-Adha 2026-05-26
Israel’s Druze Population Nears 155,000 2026-04-24
Israel Starts 2026 with More Than 10 Million People 2026-01-01

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Every statistic on this page is copied from a cited official publication. Unknown fields are omitted rather than estimated.

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